Myanmar leaders simply don’t want help! For them it is ok to see their people slowly die in hunger,thirst and sickness rather than accepting the help from the U.S. just because of the possibilty that U.S. might seize the country’s oil deposit. If this is not stupidity, the myanmar leaders are not far from KILLERS- letting their people die just because of PRIDE.
The following is the report about the back-to-base of the U.S. vessels carrying relief goods after the Myanmar generals disapproved their entry.
BANGKOK, Thailand – U.S. Navy ships are leaving Myanmar after failing to get the junta’s permission to unload aid to “ease the suffering of hundreds of thousands” of cyclone survivors, the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific said Tuesday.
Word of the aborted mercy mission comes even as the United Nations warned that a month after the cyclone swept through Myanmar, more than 1 million people still don’t have adequate food, water or shelter and junta policies are hindering relief efforts.
Adm. Timothy Keating ordered the vessels to leave the Myanmar area Thursday, after the U.S. made at least 15 attempts to convince Myanmar’s leaders to allow ships, helicopters and landing craft to offload their aid.
Myanmar’s state media has said that it feared a U.S. invasion aimed at seizing the country’s oil deposits. But the junta has also forbidden use of military helicopters from friendly neighboring nations, which are vital in rushing supplies to isolated survivors.
A “missing” key witness in the national broadband network (NBN) controversy surfaced early Thursday morning and detailed his recollections on the now-nullified government contract with China’s ZTE Corp. in a televised press conference.
Davao City Rep. Prospero Nograles has been chosen the new speaker of the House of Representatives. The Davao City native, a true-blue Atenean, has come a long way, indeed.
Now I believe that there is no such opposition and administration. These people are just playing the masses. The opposition is always cleaning their hands to get the people’s sympathy. Their independence from the admin made me to believe that they are right in some ways. But now, bleeee they are plastics! Ever since I don’t like Erap even there are people who are seemingly blind even the truth is clear that Erap is a sucker! Now, GMA has extended her arm to help ERAP. Is it because she wanted reconciliation or she just wanted to divert people’s attention to this fucking executive clemency as escape to ZTE Broadband deal scandal and the “suhol” to the congressmen issue. Now, the media are focusing to Erap’s disappointing release. The JUSTICE is really dying. If GMA is really concern to the people why did she let a monster to consume again filipinos wealth?ERAP and GMA are two chicken shits! GMA gave the pardon for her sake and ERAP asked and accepted it for his sake.(Gagamitin pa ang ina para kaawaan eh mamatay na yan kasabay ng pagpanaw ng hustisya sa bansa) . Quoted from Akbayan, the pardon is a disrespect of the spirit that bundled the EDSA 1 and 2. Hahai wala na talaga ang Pilipinas
Sa bagay, sino naman ang magtutulungan syempre and magnanakaw sa kapwa magnanakaw. Nagkabitak bitak na ang lahat. Nag susulputan na ang mga totoong kulay ng mga leader natin!Putang ina talaga! Ngayon pagpapala na lng sa langit ang aking pag-asa.
Now that the Philippine Embassy is moving on their plans to capture the Arabian who took video while raping the young Filipino lady named “Meliza”, after this, would they continue to search other the domestic helpers who are suffering the same cases? I don’t think so.
COMMENTARY
Poor citizens of course always be the victim of these injustice act of the leaders. Singapore,for instance, which land area is just equivalent to Manila. Question, which is more progressive Singapore or this country that is known as ‘Basin of Wealth’?Its Singapore!It is a big slap to the Philippine government. Shame on you!We have to do something now!A Big Change please…
GSIS – Gago at Salbaheng Institusyon Sa pinas
May 13, 2009Cheche has been charged for wiretapping by GSIS, when her Probe Team tried to do a story on unfair compensation practices. Cheche had explicitly told GSIS that she was recording their conversation beforehand. She had offered them all the airtime to present their side of the story. In the end, because the story was negative, GSIS chose to charge her with wire-tapping.
Cheche Lazaro’s Statement
May 8, 2009
It is mind-boggling why I am being singled out for prosecution for following the tenets of responsible journalism. If raising the concerns of underpaid public school teachers deprived of their benefits by a publicly accountable government institution and giving my accuser the airtime to explain her boss’s side of the story are now considered crimes under our laws, then I plead guilty.
This is a small price to pay for bringing a perfectly legitimate public interest issue out in the open. Probe will not be intimidated into submission. I just wish my accuser will play fair and hire private lawyers instead of using government lawyers (from the GSIS), whose salaries are incidentally paid for by, among others, the teachers shortchanged by the questionable policy of the GSIS and private citizens like me who pay taxes.
In the last 22 years, Probe has carved a niche in the industry and won recognition here and abroad for consistently adhering to time-honored journalistic values of accuracy, fairness and objectivity. My team and I have no plans of changing the way we work just to accommodate the personal agenda of people in power.
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